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Diet, microbial virulence, and <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> -induced gastric cancer
3 Sept 2013
Abstract excerpt
Gastric adenocarcinoma is a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, and Helicobacter pylori infection is one of the strongest known risk factors for this malignancy. H. pylori strains exhibit a high level of genetic diversity, and the risk of gastric cancer is higher in persons carrying certain strain types (for example, those that contain a cag pathogenicity island or type s1 vacA alleles) than in...
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